Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Injects $4.5 Million In New AI Research Outpost

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Injects .5 Million In New AI Research Outpost

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly gaining momentum given the rush by various tech firms to invest in it, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) subsidiary Google being in the lead. The search engine is spreading its wings into the Canadian market, and in over three years, it will invest $4.5 million in its new Montreal AI research outpost. The funding is purposed to help in paying for seven faculty members across various Montreal academic institutions as well as continued support for deep learning expert Yoshua Bengio’s work. The Universite de Montreal professor says that the institute has been attracting interest from most of the major IT companies who are even willing to be part of the funding. Notably, both the machine learning and AI research have become significant to many…